Chapter 170: Armored Column

The "Night Leopard" traveling along the road is roughly maintained at a speed of about 30 kilometers per hour, which is not fast, but it looks quite powerful. It didn't need to avoid the scattered stones on the ground, it ran over it unstoppably, and in addition to the sound of the crawler rubbing, there was a creaking and cracking sound.

Walking back to the car, Lynn watched in amazement as the "Night Leopard" made a slight turn at the fork in front of it, the front of the car facing the southwest street that led to the Havertegel Canal, from which he had envisioned a retreat to the south of the city, and that several bridges over the canal were intact before dark, and were still passable if nothing happened.

The second and third tanks in the armored queue followed by the steering were also "Night Leopards" with infrared searchlights and night vision devices. This chariot is thick and strong, and the designers seem to have fused the tenacity, precision, ferocity, and cruelty of the Germans into its thick steel body, making it the sharpest land beast of this era!

In the loud roar, four ordinary "Panthers" followed closely behind, except that they were not equipped with night vision equipment, their configuration and livery were exactly the same as the "Night Panthers", and they did not carry combat infantry like the Soviet army, so they looked very simple and bright. Behind them were five SDKFZ251 medium half-track armored vehicles, the first of which was equipped with infrared searchlights and night vision goggles similar to those of the Night Leopard with on-board machine guns - all of which Lynn had seen at the weapons training ground of the "Vampire" commando headquarters, so he was greatly curious about the name and mission of the German armored column in front of him. Bach should have been very closely linked, even very likely...... He's in the ranks!

Speculation aside, but Lynn did not choose to rush out of the sentry post and beg Colonel Bach to take him with him—he was at best a friendly appreciation and expectation of himself, which led to the fact that personal relations were the only low-level care. If you want to count on the other party to open a back door for you at a critical moment, it is obviously not enough to rely on such a relationship.

The first three half-tracked armored vehicles appeared to be fully loaded with combat infantry, the fourth had a full ring of circular antennas around the roof, which was obviously an armored vehicle for command and liaison, and the fifth was the first anti-tank with a turret that Lynn had ever seen, which had both combat support and infantry carrying functions. Immediately afterwards, six tanks with long-barreled guns and armored petticoats drove by one after another, but this was not all, two "Panthers" and two "Night Panthers" led four half-track armored vehicles to break the long armored column, and one of them was an armored command liaison vehicle with a loop antenna.

By the time all the cars had turned into the southwestern street at the fork, Lynn was still hearing the rumbling sound of machinery.

The gendarme on a motorcycle looked at his watch, and after a full minute, there was almost no trace of the armored convoy in his sight, and then he raised his left hand and said, "You can let go."

This sentence became Lynn's "handle", he hurriedly started the car, called the sentry gendarme who had blocked him before to "let go", the guy was probably also confused by this rare formation, and honestly opened the barricade, at this time, Wolfrum and Brewer, who had already gotten out of the car, quickly moved the barbed wire rack in front of them, and then jumped directly into the military barrel car that Lynn had already started.

Speeding through the excuse, while the German soldiers on the opposite side had not yet lifted the barbed wire frame back to its original position, he even hit the steering wheel in a beautiful S-shape, and smoothly chased the armored convoy through the tail of the sentry post, and muttered curiously in his heart: Goering and Himmler, the second and third men of the Reich, had been arrested and relieved of all duties by order of the Führer for "treason" at this time, and any generals who retreated without permission were even sentenced to death, and the defenders of Berlin were still losing ground in desperate resistance. What other big man can be escorted by armored forces on such a scale?

Before arriving at the Havertegel Canal, Lynn pondered but still did not have a reasonable answer, after all, the Führer had not yet taken poison and swallowed guns, and this kind of grandiose evacuation of Berlin was really unreasonable.

Seeing that the armored column had successfully crossed the bridge over the canal, Lynn continued to drive to follow, but this time the officer on duty at the bridgehead post was no longer fooled, he first took the sentry to check the identity of each soldier in the car very strictly, and then called the city defense headquarters to verify the mission. This time, the phone was not answered, and no matter how hard Lynn was, the officer on duty adhered to the order of the city defense headquarters to "only enter but not leave" and refused to let go. After more than ten minutes, Lynn was finally impressed by the stubbornness of this guy, and turned around and drove east along the canal, ready to try the Goering Bridge a few kilometers away and the Friedrichszbahn Bridge farther away, but the car had just left the bridgehead, and the cannonballs fired from a distance whistled, they only landed on the other side of the bridge and the canal at first, and after a while, a normal howitzer shell hit the bridgehead checkpoint impartially, and the officer on duty who had previously blocked Lynn's passage was immediately blown away, along with several sentries. Seeing this, Lynn turned back to the bridge at no time, only to hear someone shouting "The Soviets are coming, blow up the bridge."

"Wait to blow up the bridge!" Lynn shouted as she accelerated across the bridge, and the wooden frames with barbed wire didn't have time to move, and they crashed into it. Fortunately, there are many people who are accustomed to big surnames, and although the military barrel car slammed down and the front cover of the car was also warped, it still crashed into the wooden frame and drove onto the bridge deck. Like stepping out of the death zone at the last second in a disaster movie, Lynn stepped on the accelerator, praying "give me one more second", listening to the engine roaring in a particularly dull way, completely ignoring the shells that could hit him at any moment, letting the violent waves blow his sideburns and neckline swaying wildly, and driving forward with all his heart. Fortunately, this canal is not as wide as the Spree River on the other side of the city, and the bridgehead on the opposite bank is just around the corner, and once again it directly hit the barbed wire wooden frame, and the front cover of the VW82 military barrel car finally flew out, and the front engine ** naked droplets were exposed in front of me, and it was steaming warmly, but it stubbornly did not turn off...... "Guys, hold on to me!" Lynn gritted his teeth and shouted, geared up to accelerate, and stepped on the bottom of the accelerator under his feet. This round of Soviet artillery fire did not come from the south, and judging by the flashing artillery light in the distance, the artillery position should be in the southeast of the city, and fortunately the terrible "Katyusha" was not used.

In order to circumvent the defensive bunkers constructed by the defenders with sandbags and even concrete, Lynn constantly and frequently turned the steering wheel - not like driving, but like driving a bumper car in a playground, and although every inch of space on the car seemed extremely cramped, the passengers swayed helplessly from side to side with the rapid turn of the car, as if they could be thrown off at any moment. The further you go, the more strikingly similar the bleak scene you see in the eastern part of the city, many of the buildings that have survived the long Allied bombardment, the ground battles between the attacking and defending sides have endured direct bullets, artillery bombardment, explosives explosions, and even flames, to the point that they are so shattered that they are beyond recognition, and the ruins are strewn with the remains of men in military uniforms, and the remains of men in military uniforms are scattered everywhere, and it is difficult to identify them in the chaotic night.

Knock Knock...... Da Da Da ...... Suddenly hearing the roar of cannons and machine guns in front of him, Lynn seemed to be a demon who had suddenly lifted the spell, and instantly came to his senses, he quickly slowed down the car, and the pointer reading on the speedometer dropped from more than 70 to 40, but even at this 40 kilometers per hour, it was still too fast when he felt that the danger was approaching, and Lynn quickly reduced the speed to 30, and at this time, the light and flames produced by the explosion of the cannonballs could be clearly seen in front of his sight.

Was it the armored column that earlier encountered Soviet troops?

This was not surprising to Lynn, after all, Radio Berlin had announced the official news a day earlier, saying that the capital had been surrounded by Soviet troops, and in the name of the Reich Führer, he called on all the military and civilians of Berlin to engage in a glorious battle, so as to continuously consume the Soviet army and cooperate with the army to launch a strategic counterattack from both flanks of the battle line.

The counterattack was only a few delusions, and Lynn was only concerned with the extent to which the Soviets had encircled Berlin: whether they had three layers inside and three layers outside, or whether they had only occupied and blocked the main roads. Whether those remote trails can still be passed, or whether it only takes a low-intensity battle to break through the Soviet blockade and intercept them. If there are Soviet tanks and heavy troops everywhere, with the strength of your own small team, you can only make full use of the terrain and night cover to have a chance to break through on foot.

Hearing gunfire getting closer and closer, and even bullets flying overhead, Lynn stopped the car on the side of the road. Although there are only two kinds of people on this battlefield - oneself and the enemy, it is very dangerous to get involved in the battle blindly. Standing up on the door pedal, he held his binoculars to observe, while Wolfrum and the others quickly got out of the car to be on guard. Judging from the light of the artillery fire, the battle mainly took place between tanks and tanks, and the relatively dark light was undoubtedly beneficial to the German side with night vision equipment, but after all, it was out of the effective control of the German army, and if it accidentally broke into the area where a large number of Soviet infantry were stationed, the situation would be very unoptimistic!

(To be continued)